. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. KHODOGISTRIA. 501 antennae brown, the 1st joint crimson ; tegulae with pair of black points and edged with crimson ; patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with paired black spots ; coxae and femora above crimson ; Fig, 224.—Rhodogastria rubripes, (^. j. orange above, two lateral series of black spots ; wings semihyaline ; fore wing with subbasal black point on median nervure; hind wing of male with the fringe of hair orango-fulvous. Ab. 1. Abdomen with th
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. KHODOGISTRIA. 501 antennae brown, the 1st joint crimson ; tegulae with pair of black points and edged with crimson ; patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with paired black spots ; coxae and femora above crimson ; Fig, 224.—Rhodogastria rubripes, (^. j. orange above, two lateral series of black spots ; wings semihyaline ; fore wing with subbasal black point on median nervure; hind wing of male with the fringe of hair orango-fulvous. Ab. 1. Abdomen with the 1st and last three segments dorsally white.—Thursday I. Ilab. Thursday I. (MatJieiu), 1 J ; N. Australia, Pt. Darwin (J. J. Walker), 1 J, 1 $ ; Queensland, C. York {Elsey)^ 2 $ type. ). 56-60 millim. 2112. Rhodogastria brunnea, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 5.) c?. Head brownish yellow, with black spots at sides of joints of palpus, above frons, and on vertex of head; thorax brown, the tegulae, shoulders, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black spots ; pectus and base of legs yellowish, the fore coxae with black spots ; abdomen orange, with two lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface yellowish. Pore wing brown; the disk somewhat hyaline ; the discocellulars darker, with conjoined hyaline white patches beyond them above veins 4, 5, 6. Hind wing brown; the inner area tinged with orange; a hyaline fascia in and beyond upper part of cell. Ilab. R. Niger, Sapele (F. W. Sampson), 1 (S type. Exjp, 56 millim. *2113. Rhodogastria roseibarba. (Plate L. fig. 9.) Rhodogastria roseibarba, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 74 (1901). S . Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; palpi crimson, with black spots on the joints at sides ; antennae dull crimson ; frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black spots ; legs crimson and pale brown ; abdomen ochreous whitish, the 1st and last two segments dorsally pale crimson, lateral and sublateral series of
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